US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on Aug. 4 for "Radiation treatment plan optimization as a function of both dosimetric and non-dosimetric parameters" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,506, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Radiation treatment plan optimization as a function of both dosimetric and non-dosimetric parameters" was invented by Esa Kuusela (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit optimizes a radiation treatment plan as a function of a plurality of different criteria that include both dosimetric parameters and non-dosimetric parameters. By one approach, during a first optimization phase, the control circuit generates a first phase optimized radiation treatment plan as a function of dosimetric parameters (for example...